[asterisk-users] setvar=CDR(accountcode)=${EXTEN} in sip.conf ???

[Matt Riddell]

On 5/09/09 6:51 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>
> 5 sep 2009 kl. 01.05 skrev Matt Riddell:
>
>> On 4/09/09 6:22 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>>>
>>> 4 sep 2009 kl. 00.44 skrev Matt Riddell:
>>>
>>>> On 4/09/09 10:41 AM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>> Todd Routhier wrote:
>>>>>> Trying to do something like this in the sip.conf under my incoming
>>>>>> provider profiles:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> setvar=CDR(accountcode)=${EXTEN}
>>>>>>
>>>>> Set(CDR(accountcode)=${EXTEN})
>>>>
>>>> Nah he's trying to do it in sip.conf
>>>>
>>>> Basically what you should do is add the line that Doug recommended
>>>> to
>>>> the dialplan - sip.conf can't know what the extension is because
>>>> it's
>>>> setting these variables once for a peer.
>>>>
>>> There is an accountcode= setting in sip.conf that solves the issue
>>> for
>>> you.
>>> Both accountcode and amaflags are available for all lines/device
>>> configurations in all channel drivers.
>>
>> But can you set it to a variable which will be expanded once the call
>> reaches the dialplan?  He is trying to use ${EXTEN}
>
> Channel variables only work in the dialplan, never in other
> configuration files.
>
> You need to run this command in the entry of the dialplan, since EXTEN
> is not set when we create the channel and set the channel variable.

Yep, agreed - and it's as I understood it.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
Director
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